RFE/RL in the Media
# “Washington Examiner” picks up Li Luo’s infographic on foreign fighters in Iraq and Syria
# Daily Beast cites RFE/RL reporting on anti-gay acts in Kazakhstan
# “The Nation” cites RFE/RL reporting on Scottish referendum
# RFE/RL Russian Service coverage of LGBT rally cited in Muftah in piece about nationalist split
# Carnegie mentions RFE/RL in piece about West’s long-term readiness for Ukraine
Russia
# Russia warns of “far-reaching, unfortunate consequences” over “ethnic tensions” in Baltics; full speech text
# Russia to create emergency fund to deal with sanctions
# “Russians Will Not Yield” – Sergey Karaganov, “Financial Times”
# What Russia was saying about Ukraine one year ago
Ukraine
# “Bitter Survivors and Caravans of Coffins from Ukraine’s “Eastern Boiler”” – Anna Nemtsova, Daily Beast
Ian Bateson
# “How Putin Got His Way in Ukraine” – Simon Shuster, “Time”
# Decadent Kyiv
# Five ways for NATO, U.S. to support Ukraine
# Photos: Kyiv in ’55
Middle East
# A long-read from inside Aleppo
# Al-Qaeda militants flooding into Yemen amid unrest
# In search of a digital caliphate
# Inside the chilling online world of the women of IS
Iran
# Khamenei says he personally rejected U.S. offer on cooperation over IS; Kerry says open to it
# Iran providing logistical support, weapons to fighters in Iraq
# Iran rethinking its support for Assad
Afghanistan/Pakistan
# Why the candidates can’t reach a deal
# Could Karzai stay on?
# Al-Qaeda Indian branch “laughing stock” of terror world?
# “Imran Khan’s Threat to Pakistan Democracy” – “Financial Times”
Caucasus
# Turkish EU minister calls for new era in relations with Armenians
# Azerbaijan shows off military industrial complex at country’s first weapons show
Of Interest
# Peak Greenwald?
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